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[U.S.] Margaret Visser: “All Depends on Dinner”

Culture & Public Commentary2007.07.16
[U.S.] Margaret Visser: “All Depends on Dinner”
[US]Margaret Visser: “It All Depends on Dinner,” translated by Liu Xia'ai, New Star Press2007May, 29yuan Introduction, page 1 In everyday life, the things we take for granted in using rule us and saturate our lives.……The shape of chairs has changed continuously over the centuries; the number and form of the tines on forks have also kept changing; in addition, the width and length of corridors have likewise been adjusted again and again. These formal, or accidental, changes in things are a language, telling the story of our cultural ideas while also recording the history of life. One of the eye-opening realizations of the twentieth century (like every discovery, it…
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2007年7月16日
Today’s Xindao Salon Notes, 09-07-11

Life & Notes2007.07.11
Today’s Xindao Salon Notes, 09-07-11
Next week (July18) the Suixuan Salon will be suspended, and the week after next (25) will probably also be suspended. After I go back to Shanghai to visit my family, I should still be spending my Saturdays at Xin Dao in August. As for next semester, broadly speaking, the open salon at Xin Dao will probably continue every Saturday; at the very least, let me use up my recharged membership card before making any plans, though at the same time I will also be exploring new forms. In the blink of an eye, nearly half of my zodiac year has passed. My so-called “In my zodiac year, the Demon King…
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2007年7月11日
[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons

Culture & Public Commentary2007.07.08
[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
[U.S.]Dan Brown: Angels and Demons, translated by Zhu Zhenwu, Wang Qiaoli, and Xin Yan, People's Literature Publishing House, February 2005, 29.8 yuan—☆ The second book I read during my Shanxi period. Since I have never been very enthusiastic about bestsellers, I nearly missed The Da Vinci Code; later the movie came out, and I heard it had something to do with science and religion, so I downloaded it and watched it. It really was quite remarkable—after all, there are many good books even among bestsellers~ Although I still haven’t read the original The Da Vinci Code, after reading this Angels and Demons, I am certain that this book is even…
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2007年7月8日
[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons

Culture & Public Commentary2007.07.08
[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
[U.S.]Dan Brown: Angels and Demons, translated by Zhu Zhenwu, Wang Qiaoli, and Xin Yan, People's Literature Publishing House, February 2005, 29.8 yuan—☆ The second book I read during my Shanxi period. Since I have never been very enthusiastic about bestsellers, I nearly missed The Da Vinci Code; later the movie came out, and I heard it had something to do with science and religion, so I downloaded it and watched it. It really was quite remarkable—after all, there are many good books even among bestsellers~ Although I still haven’t read the original The Da Vinci Code, after reading this Angels and Demons, I am certain that this book is even…
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2007年7月8日
Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers—A Biography of Erdős

History of Science & Scholarship2007.07.08
Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers—A Biography of Erdős
Paul Hoffman: Digital Abiding Passion: The Life of Erdős, translated by Mi Xiujun, Zhang Xiaoyan, and Miu Weidong, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, August 2000, 21 yuan This was the first book I read during my trip to Shanxi. It was something Senior Brother Botian had mentioned before, and it really is very good. It had been a long time since I last read a scientist’s biography. In fact, biographies of scientists are a superb form of popular science: through literary means, they can interestingly combine first-order popularization with second-order popularization. That is to say, in a scientist’s biography, one can not only occasionally insert explanations of scientific knowledge,…
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2007年7月8日
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)

Philosophy & Thought2007.05.31
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)
As usual, let me first post a rough draft of the essay. I had originally planned to write about Heidegger, but Heidegger’s articles are really too ethereal; when I read them, it’s all clouds and fog, impossible to get a grip on… Among the philosophy of technology thinkers discussed so far, aside from Marx, Feenberg is still the one most to my taste, though Ellul and Mumford are also worthy of respect. [US]Andrew Feenberg: Critique of Technology, translated by Han Lianqing and Cao Guanfǎ, Peking University Press,2005 Preface, p. 1, v, (first sentence) Must humanity submit to the harsh logic of machines? Or can technology be fundamentally redesigned so that…
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2007年5月31日
[English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.27
[English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★
[English] Brian Ridley: *Is Science Magic?*, translated by Li Bin and Zhang Butian, Guangxi Normal University Press, May 2007, 1st edition, 1st printing, 1–7000 copies, 118,000 characters, 787×1092, 9.625 sheets, 25 yuan — ★ Guangxi Normal University Press is really getting cooler and cooler! I couldn’t resist buying this set yesterday when I saw it at WanSheng, even though today I saw that the Wild Grass Bookstore’s 25% discount copies had also arrived (by the way, Wild Grass has finally taken back and merged in the neighboring “Masterpiece Movement” that couldn’t stay in business, doubling its space). But when you see such a cool series, you really can’t not make…
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2007年5月27日
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.20
Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science
This book review assignment was due today, and the other book I had originally chosen still wasn’t finished reading; it seemed I wouldn’t have time, so I dug out this thinner book I had read before and wrote up a filler submission. If the TA is willing to wait a few more days, I might write another book review and hand that in instead…… G•E•R•Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle, translated by Sun Xiaochun, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2004 Ancient Greece is the source and beginning of science. There is no doubt that research on the history of science and technology in ancient Greece is of…
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2007年5月20日
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.02
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan
Yang Shoujian: Critique of Academic Corruption in China, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 1st edition, February 2001, 16 yuan The academic world is by no means an earthly paradise; rather, it is a truly filthy and sordid place, a gathering spot for swindlers, plagiarists, and robbers. I had in fact already been fairly clear-eyed about this, but when I read many of the cases, I was still shocked. Take, for example, Wang Tongyi’s so-called Language Encyclopedia, which has been praised as a collection of jokes and is enough to make one laugh out loud: (Wang Tongyi styled himself the “Dictionary King”; over 10 years he edited 25 dictionaries totaling 170 million…
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2007年4月2日
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.24
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)
This article was a small paper for Teacher Shangzhou’s “Selected Readings in Buddhist Original Texts” course back then, but I felt it was written awkwardly and in a complete mess, and I was too embarrassed to post it on my blog at the time. However, looking at it now, since my blog already has plenty of lousy text, one more piece of that sort hardly matters. I had originally been quite interested in Buddhism and Buddhist studies. Besides being deeply impressed by the philosophical depth of Primitive Buddhism (atheistic Buddhism), I was also rather interested in Tibetan esoteric Buddhism. Back then I found a number of audio recordings of…
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2007年3月24日